hellacious

Examples

• All

• We've just come off a hellacious flight from the coast... and would really appreciate an upgrade, possibly to a junior executive suite.

  Rock the Kasbah (2015)

• You got one year of hellacious grind ahead of you.

  The Ramsey Show

• I'm already in hellacious trouble with my dad.

  Star Kid (1997)

• We almost got away, too, except that we found ourselves closed up in this hellacious box canyon.

  The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)

• Monday was shaping up to be a hellacious day.

  Fiction book (1992)

• First, you had a hellacious dispute over insurance coverage for the towers that went on for years.

  Blog text (9)

• The meanest, crookedest, most hellacious town in the West.

  The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

• What a hellacious ending.

  Mysterious Circumstance: The Death of Meriwether Lewis (2022)

• Last night's storm had not materialized, passing over Willis without even bothering to say hello, but it had left behind some hellacious humidity.

  Fiction book (1991)

• After a hellacious week of exams, all I wanted was a relaxing weekend.

Synonyms

H

horrible

vshellacious

∞ 1.5

Very bad or frightening in a way that makes you feel upset

is broader and often refers to extreme intensity or difficult situations

T

terrible

vshellacious

658 1.0

So frightening that people feel afraid

is broader and emphasizes extreme intensity, difficulty, or badness

H

horrific

vshellacious

179 5.5

Causing great fear or shock

is broader and covers intense difficulty or overwhelming badness as well

B

brutal

vshellacious

142 4.2

Very harsh and severe, causing great difficulty or pain

is broader, covering intense badness and overwhelming negative intensity

D

dreadful

vshellacious

136 3.7

Very bad and unpleasant, often causing fear or shock

is broader and can stress intense difficulty or overwhelming severity

H

harsh

vshellacious

120 2.9

Very severe and demanding, making life or work difficult, for example very bad weather

is more intense and can mean overwhelming or extremely bad overall

U

unbearable

vshellacious

89 3.9

Too painful or unpleasant to stand

is broader and can mean intense badness without impossible tolerance

H

horrendous

vshellacious

82 7.0

Very shocking and scary, causing fear or disgust

is broader, and can stress intense difficulty rather than only shock

N

nasty

vshellacious

75 5.1

Very difficult to deal with or solve

is broader, also meaning intense unpleasantness beyond mere difficulty

A

awful

vshellacious

• Archaic

65 1.1

Very frightening and causing fear or dread

is broader and also covers intense difficulty or overwhelming unpleasantness

U

unspeakable

vshellacious

58 7.2

Too terrible to describe in words

is broader, can mean overwhelming badness or severe difficulty instead

G

grim

vshellacious

57 4.5

Very bad and shocking, causing people to feel fear or sadness

is broader and refers to extreme badness beyond only horror or dread

W

wicked

vshellacious

42 3.1

A very bad or painful condition, for example during illness

is broader and also stresses intense difficulty or overwhelming negativity

H

hellish

vshellacious

28 6.1

Very unpleasant and painful, like being in hell

is broader, covers extreme difficulty and overwhelming intensity

W

wretched

vshellacious

16 5.7

Extremely unhappy and suffering a lot

is broader and focuses more on external difficulty and overwhelming intensity

G

god-awful

vshellacious

• Informal

16 8.4

Very bad and unpleasant

is more neutral and can appear in both formal and informal speech

I

infernal

vshellacious

• Literature

8 8.3

Very evil and cruel, causing great pain or suffering

is broader, focuses also on intense difficulty and overwhelming severity

F

frightful

vshellacious

7 4.2

Very bad or unpleasant in a strong way

is broader and often means intense difficulty or overwhelming harm

U

unendurable

vshellacious

3 8.0

Too unpleasant or painful to bear

is broader and can describe intense severity without total intolerability

H

helly

vshellacious

• Slang

9.9

An extremely unpleasant situation that is hard to handle

is neutral and fits formal as well as informal contexts

Antonyms

E

easy

∞ 1.0

Not hard to do, understand, or achieve

P

pleasant

314 1.0

Giving a gentle feeling of enjoyment

How Bad

hellacious

• Informal

3 9.0

terrible

∞ 1.0

serious

∞ 2.0

bad

∞ 1.0

unpleasant

215 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology